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Re: Ist July
I wonder how many living in Accy and area today .... and others, like me, who left for whatever reasons ... are related, however distantly, to one (or maybe more than one) of the men who went over the top on July 1, 1916?
And Retlaw:
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.
With 2016 just around the corner, all the work you have done may well come to be appreciated. The kind of history that the Pals made isn't some tired story that doesn't have any relevance to the twenty-first century; the world, though nowhere near perfect, would be a hell of lot worse place to live if it hadn't been for the high price paid by men who fought for pennies a day in two world wars.
If you can read this post, thank a teacher; and because you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
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